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Agreed. I'm a pretty good cook, but I can't stand doing it upwards of 99% of the time. I appreciate the shit out of a good meal, but I appreciate a mediocre meal that took me 0 effort to acquire much, much more than even the best meal that took me so much as 1 effort to acquire. Pour water into container and shake is about as low effort as I can imagine for a nutritionally complete meal, and if I die from liver failure after a month then I just wasn't meant to be.

I'm not sure that the cost of a month's supply on this campaign is necessarily what it will ultimately cost in full production. The prices listed here, I assume, are what they think they need to charge to reach their 100k goal to enter mass production (based on how many people they expect will support the campaign). Ultimately they have a lot more costs than just the price of the ingredients, and their first run is likely to be more expensive than subsequent runs.

You can become your own pilot and mechanic, buy a big plot of land and build your own hangar and helicopter museum, get a helicopter that runs on diesel, open a McDonald's franchise and use the oil to run your helicopter. I ran some numbers and this turns a profit. You can also sell helicopter tours of your helicopter museum for more $$$ and possibly be the first McDonalds to offer delivery by helicopter. With the profits you can buy a 2nd helicopter which, by my number, doubles everything!

Full disclosure: I'm a bad mather, but I'd be a great rich person

1) You can use respond.js[1] if you don't need complicated media queries. It's much smaller than 15k

2) Icon Fonts should make use of the Unicode Private Use Areas[2]. Screen readers should not attempt to make sense of these code points, and you can add title tags to enhance accessibility.

[1] https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_%28Unicode%29

Why not just start a consultancy firm?

The Internet is finally useful. Thanks, The Onion!

On a side note, I can't be the only one trying to memorize the embedded Base64 representations of fart mp3s, can I? That would kill at parties.

hammers don't kill people; contractors kill people

Will. Do. Grazie.

> Yet though Oslo considered the Italian garbage, it preferred to stick with what it said was the cleaner and safer English waste. “It’s a sensitive question,” Mr. Mikkelsen said.

This is literally the most intriguing thing in my life right now. What a tease. Does anyone have insight into why Italian garbage is less safe?

My wallet nearly hit me in the face such was its velocity upon breach of my pocket.

the sources are listed on the last 'panel' in the graphic

First and foremost, the 2nd link you posted is full of hilarious; thanks for sharing.

> II.7 (gladiator barracks); 8767: Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion.

I don't know that I'm arguing for anything 'major' or 'documented'; for any specific religion or culture; or for anything at all beyond the fact that crude vulva drawings can be either or simultaneously a show of reverence and sexual interest. That we (meaning largely post-Testament historians) haven't documented the intentions of ancient cave-artists as being born of such duality is hardly evidence against that possibility.

> pornography implies objectification

That's a very modern application of those words. The very act of creating a statue is (true) objectification, whether it was carried out due to respect or solely to titillate. I'm not convinced that both cannot be true of the same statue.

And the modern concept of pornography means very little when framed in a pre-Judeo-Christian world. I doubt any of our loin-clothed ancestors shared the shame-based perspective 21st century humans have on the human body. No doubt some statues/drawings of vulvae were made because vulvae were fun things to interact with, and some were made because they were meant to be revered; I'd argue that it's possible for some percentage of those works of art to be motivated by both respect and eroticism, and further that the two motivations need not be considered so inherently at odds.

> it is at least as likely that the statues are porn as that they are representations of powerful goddesses

I'm not so sure there is or needs to be a distinction between the two. Penis goes in, life comes out. You can't explain that. Well, paleolithic man couldn't. But they could draw/sculpt it and revere it for both its pleasure- and life-giving properties.

this is the internet, you're free to omit the 2nd e and just call it MEANR. hell, http://mea.nr is available.

Looks promising. The small amount of detail shown/given have definitely piqued my interest, though I can't say I love the claim that the game won't have power hungry mods. Eventually, if the game is successful, it will grow to the point that more moderators will be needed than can possibly be completely vetted thoroughly enough to guarantee this. That said, can't wait to give it a spin. I'll shamelessly include my referral signup link because internet points: http://www.evosolaria.com/?uid=80#register

At the end of the checkout process it is noted that all Puppies are located in San Francisco. I am on the east coast of the US. For the puppy to arrive at my location in ~1 hour, it would need to travel at ~2500mph. This kills the puppy :(

As a rich person with very little money I am offended ;)

Interesting read, but I have to say I'm a little put off by the conclusion

> [...] if I could have substituted them all for traditional booth babes, I would have done it in a heartbeat. Then I’d be free to have a great time being what I normally am at conferences: a curiosity, an anomaly, and an excitable nerd.

In my opinion, this trivializes what was, prior to its inclusion, a worthwhile lament. The conclusion makes it sound as if the author is ultimately dismayed not that she was dismissed as being unworthy of unadulterated engineer-speak, but more so bothered by the fact that she was no longer the center of attention and no longer unique. I'm sure in reality she cares much more about being the former, but it was quite a shallow consummation to an otherwise interesting piece.

Sounds a lot like The Hacker's Diet (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/)

I don't know that there are many problems humans face that you could not, in some way, attribute to a lack of meaningful data (or understanding what data is meaningful and what data serves only to further dilute or affirm our poorly constructed models of what is meaningful)

and using the same code base:

http://lamernews.com (programming) http://echolinux.com (linux)

I used >< as, literally, "greater than or less than".

I don't work for Wefunder, I just went through the application process and typed what I remembered filling out.

Income for 2011-2013, net worth >< 1,000,000 and agreeing that you understand the risk of investing in startups, plus a signature

This article is from 2011 and mentions a 25-kilowatt version by the end of the year. Anyone know of any updates?

> It is possible that the nutrient powder (and similar) industry hasn't given much thought to this idea because its radical and potentially risky

It may also be the case that "drink one of these a day and lose weight" is more marketable than "drink one of these a day and never eat real food again" ;)

First off, thanks for dampening the enthusiasm I was feeling after reading the OP. I would love to hear your thoughts on what, specifically, his formula is/may be missing. I can think of nothing more amazing than to consume a magic glass of nutrition a day and be done, and your post has given me pause.

Twitter solved the problem of dead-easy, publish-from-anywhere communication.

Restricting the length of a tweet solved the (perceived?) problem of having to say something meaningful in order to publish on the web. They removed many of the barriers to publishing and by virtue of getting a large user base solved the problem of reaching a large, captive audience for free.

More than anything, they solved the problem of there being no platform in existence that was adequately public, connected, and pointless enough to contain the terse, unsolicited musings of the modern human mind.

By consequence, Paleo is low carb if, while following the diet, you don't eat a lot of carbs. What you call an "oddball variation" is what some others might call "what works for them".

I agree with you that the community at large is full of individuals looking for quick-weight-loss diet magic and that ketosis can be a fringe benefit of Paleo if you intentionally limit your carbs. But the community is not the diet, and the _majority_ of the community are, as with most diets, people following a fad insomuch as it doesn't actually interfere with their current habits. /r/paleo was a good source for a hot month or two a few years ago, but nowadays it should be called /r/bacon and its content taken with a grain of salt.